![]() ![]() Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other's world entire,” are sustained by love. The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. This page contains details about the Fiction book The Road by Cormac. Included are section questions, a project, an end-of-novel essay, and genre and characterization activities, as well as other activities to use to enhance the reading of the novel. This unit plan contains a day-to-day plan for a 3-4 week unit. They have nothing just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearting, a cart of scavenged food-and each other. The Road is the most popular book that I read with my 11th graders. ![]() About No Country for Old Men From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Road comes a profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered novel ( The Washington Post ) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. Look for Cormac McCarthy’s latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. ![]() It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. ![]()
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